Study interventions are limited entirely to validated surveys completed on a computer or tablet PC, as outlined above. Patients may elect to have electrodes to be implanted that are not used in standard-of-care at this institution, but are FDA-approved for the same indications. Patients who consent and complete enrollment will be asked to complete cognitive and behavioral tasks on a portable computer or tablet PC while the invasive electrodes remain implanted. Tasks typically require the patient to think or act and then respond by interacting minimally with the portable computer.
The primary outcome for this study includes percentage of completed cognitive or behavioral tasks as a measure of the feasibility of the administration of these tasks. As this is a feasibility study, we are interested in the practical aspects of data acquisition.
Secondary outcomes include the cognitive and behavioral tasks themselves and their relationship with electrophysiology.
